as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the enormousness of the mall is such that one could shop at a different store for every day of the year
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enormousness
Noun
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These are the kinds of performances a team needs to pull off an upset of the magnitude that the Wolves just pulled off.—
Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
1 May 2026 -
Due to such factors, the MDH could not determine the apparent miscount’s magnitude.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Apr. 2026
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Originally staged at Avignon in 2025, the play follows a father and daughter whose bond is tested across the vastness of space as one of them starts a new life on Mars while Earth deteriorates.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
13 Apr. 2026
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His novels, especially the later ones, were rigorous, ecstatic immensities unlike anything that anticipated them.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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This is the brilliance and haunting immensity of Cauleen Smith’s The Warden, 2025.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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The enormity of the turbines was evident from even a mile out.—
Jennifer McDermott,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
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The enormity of the turbines was evident from even a mile out.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Enormousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enormousness. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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